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ƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒER 2005 – Tutorial 8 UML 2 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1 2 3 3Martin Hitz , Gerti Kappel , Elisabeth Kapsammer , Werner Retschitzegger 1Institute of Informatics Systems, Department of Interactive Systems University of Klagenfurt, Austria [e-mail] 2Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Business Informatics Group Technical University of Vienna, Austria [e-mail] 3Department of Information Systems Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria {ek | werner}@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at General Information Date: Tuesday, October 25 2005 Duration: 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm Motivation Eight years after its standardization in 1997, UML has been accepted world wide as the »lingua franca« in software modeling for both developers and customers. This success of a single modeling language allows for an effective and efficient communication about software models, thus preventing unfruitful discussions concerning the meaning of certain graphical symbols such as circles or »crows feet« formerly used in different modeling notations. UML in the current version 2.0 goes one step further promising, among others, to provide a basis for model-driven development and (semi-) automatic code generation. Objective The objective of this tutorial is to give insights into the major changes of the new UML2 standard by pointing out improvements, reporting shortcomings, and discussing flaws. This tutorial ...

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ER 2005 – Tutorial 8

UML 2 – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Martin Hitz

1

, Gerti Kappel

2

, Elisabeth Kapsammer

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, Werner Retschitzegger

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Institute of Informatics Systems, Department of Interactive Systems

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

[e-mail]

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Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Business Informatics Group

Technical University of Vienna, Austria

[e-mail]

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Department of Information Systems

Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria

{ek |

werner}@ifs.uni-linz.ac.at

General Information

Date:

Tuesday, October 25 2005

Duration:

2.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Motivation

Eight years after its standardization in 1997, UML has been accepted world wide as the »lingua

franca« in software modeling for both developers and customers. This success of a single modeling

language allows for an effective and efficient communication about software models, thus preventing

unfruitful discussions concerning the meaning of certain graphical symbols such as circles or »crows

feet« formerly used in different modeling notations. UML in the current version 2.0 goes one step

further promising, among others, to provide a basis for model-driven development and (semi-)

automatic code generation.

Objective

The objective of this tutorial is to give insights into the major changes of the new UML2 standard by

pointing out improvements, reporting shortcomings, and discussing flaws.

This tutorial will allow the participants to

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obtain a big picture of the goals and overall changes of UML 2

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grasp origin, purpose and usage areas of new diagram types and language concepts for structural

and behavioural modeling

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assess the potential of UML 2, thus facilitating the process of migrating to UML 2

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get familiar with the new underlying language architecture and the changes concerning its

extension mechanisms and meta modeling capabilities

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gain insight into the potential and limits of model-driven software development on the basis of

UML 2 and MOF

Preliminary Outline

(1) Goals and promises of UML 2

(2) Overview of major changes

(3) Evaluation of new concepts

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in structural modeling

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in behavioural modeling

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in the language architecture

(4) Does UML 2 meet its goals and keep its promises?

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Related Topics of the Conference

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Metadata, their interpretation and usage

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Design methodologies and languages and their evaluation (UML, XML, RDF, OWL etc.)

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Enterprise and business process modeling

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Standardization

Level of the Tutorial

Intermediate/Advanced

Intended Audience / Prerequisites

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Teachers, researchers and students from the area of object-oriented modeling and model

engineering

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Industry members from the area of software development, system analysis as well as business

process management

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General knowledge about UML 1.x is required

Instructors’ Profile

Martin Hitz

is a full professor of informatics at the Department of Informatics Systems at the

University of Klagenfurt, Austria. He received his MS and PhD degrees in computer science from

Vienna University of Technology in 1982 and 1989, respectively. From 1988 to 1991 he was a

research fellow at Politecnico di Milano and at the University of Ottawa. He is currently heading the

Interactive Systems Group in his department and is teaching object-oriented software development

and HCI. His research interests are platform independent user interfaces (especially w.r.t. e-learning

systems), context sensitive Web based information systems, as well as HCI in general.

Gerti Kappel

is a full professor at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at the

Vienna University of Technology, heading the Business Informatics Group. Until 2001, she was a full

professor of computer science and head of the Department of Information Systems at the Johannes

Kepler University of Linz. She received the Ms and PhD degrees in computer science and business

informatics from the University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology in 1984 and 1987,

respectively. From 1987 to 1989 she was a visiting researcher at Centre Universitaire d'Informatique,

Geneva, Switzerland. Her current research interests include object-oriented modeling, database/Web

integration, ubiquitous Web technologies, Web engineering, as well as model engineering.

Elisabeth Kapsammer

studied business informatics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz,

Austria. She received the MS and PhD degrees from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social

Sciences of the JKU in 1994 and 1999, respectively. From 1993 to 1998 she was affiliated with the

FAW (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing) in Hagenberg, Austria, as project

manager and senior researcher in a series of national and international research and industry projects.

Since 1999 she is senior researcher at the Department of Information Systems of the JKU. Her current

research interests comprise object-oriented modeling, integration of relational database systems and

XML, database/Web integration, as well as model engineering.

Werner Retschitzegger

studied business informatics at the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz,

Austria. He received the MS (1991) and PhD (1996) degrees from the Faculty of Business, Economics

and Social Sciences and his habilitation (Venia Docendi) for applied computer science from the Faculty

of Natural Sciences and Engineering of JKU. From 1990 to 1993 he has been working for the Research

Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing in Hagenberg, Austria, being involved in various national

and international industrial and research projects. Since 1993, he is affiliated with the Department of

Information Systems at JKU. In 2002, he was appointed to a temporary full professorship for business

informatics at the Vienna University of Technology. Currently, he chairs the Institute of Bioinformatics

at JKU. His current research interests comprise the integration of database and Web technology and

its application to e-commerce, ubiquitous Web applications, model engineering, and Web engineering.

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